eleven / messenger Public

build: trim the deploy build context for lean, fast uploads (#139)

deploy-instance.sh copied the whole working tree into the Miren upload —
including ios/ native build output (~700MB) and the Node apps' node_modules
(~260MB). Miren uploads the context *before* Docker applies .dockerignore, so
every deploy shipped ~750MB. Prune the server image's non-inputs from the temp
context (ios/, node_modules everywhere, .git/.claude, local *.db, the binary):
measured 755MB -> 1.3MB, with go source / Dockerfile / .miren / web/ intact.

Also:
- ios/.gitignore: ignore the build*/ derived-data dirs (build-mac, build-sim, …)
  and *.xcarchive — build output that shouldn't be tracked.
- .dockerignore: exclude node_modules repo-wide — the sibling Node apps (agent,
  devagent) run their own npm install in-image, so host modules are wrong-platform
  bloat that must never be copied in.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Paul Campbell 4 months ago cf58ddb5f7969fa54247c142866c3d68c482b7ac parent dadf01f

3 files changed, +16 −2

.dockerignore +3 −0
deploy-instance.sh +9 −1
ios/.gitignore +4 −1

diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore

index 43135e3..06f4e10 100644

--- a/.dockerignore

+++ b/.dockerignore

@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ README.md

# build output) are never part of the server build context.

/ios

.claude

+# Sibling Node apps (agent, devagent) run their own npm install in-image, so host

+# node_modules must never be copied in — wrong platform, and pure bloat.

+**/node_modules

diff --git a/deploy-instance.sh b/deploy-instance.sh

index 5bed176..549381b 100755

--- a/deploy-instance.sh

+++ b/deploy-instance.sh

@@ -21,7 +21,15 @@ trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT

# Build context = the source, with instance-specific app name + disk name.

cp -R "$REPO"/. "$TMP"/

-rm -rf "$TMP/.git"

+# Trim the context before Miren uploads it. Docker applies .dockerignore at BUILD

+# time, but Miren uploads this dir FIRST — so a fat working tree makes every

+# deploy slow. Drop what the server image never needs: the native ios/ build

+# output (~700MB), the sibling Node apps' node_modules (~260MB), VCS/editor/agent

+# dirs, the local binary, and *.db (local SQLite holding user data — must never

+# leave the machine). Mirrors .dockerignore, plus node_modules everywhere.

+rm -rf "$TMP/.git" "$TMP/ios" "$TMP/.claude" "$TMP/lchat" \

+ "$TMP"/*.db "$TMP"/*.db-wal "$TMP"/*.db-shm

+find "$TMP" -name node_modules -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} + 2>/dev/null || true

sed -e "s/^name = \"lchat\"\$/name = \"$INSTANCE\"/" \

-e "s/^name = \"lchat-data\"\$/name = \"${INSTANCE}-data\"/" \

"$REPO/.miren/app.toml" > "$TMP/.miren/app.toml"

diff --git a/ios/.gitignore b/ios/.gitignore

index ec8c35f..dd9b2b2 100644

--- a/ios/.gitignore

+++ b/ios/.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@

# The Xcode project is generated from project.yml by xcodegen.

LChat.xcodeproj/

-build/

+# Build output — `build/` plus the custom -derivedDataPath dirs the build/release

+# recipes use (build-mac, build-sim, …). None of it belongs in git.

+build*/

DerivedData/

+*.xcarchive

# Convenience symlinks into build/ from the README's headless-build recipe.

LChat-*.app

*.xcuserstate